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Ray Baughman creates artificial muscles
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Nature has been developing her technologies for many hundreds of millions of years, said Ray Baughman. "By looking at the way in which nature has solved problems like muscl...
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Jay Harman froze a whirlpool to clean water or air
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Nature likes spirals, from whirlpools or hurricanes, to the way sap flows up a plant, to the shape of a human heart. Inventor Jay Harmon, of the engineering research and pr...
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Brent Constantz builds cement like corals do
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Biomineralization expert Brent Constantz of Stanford University was inspired to make a new type of cement for buildings by the way corals build reefs. The process of making...
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Richard Baraniuk: Squid skin inspires submarine camouflage
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Richard Baraniuk believes the animal kingdom has a lot to teach, not just to scientists who are looking to understand, but also to engineers who are looking to create. Bara...
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Janine Benyus: Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature
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Janine Benyus helped bring the word biomimicry into 21st century vocabularies in her 1997 book on the subject. Her company, The Biomimicry Group, encourages biologists at t...
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Steven Fries: Emerging countries as drivers for global growth
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Wim Thomas on energy supply and demand
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Adam Newton: Today's energy choices will have lasting effects
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Martin Haigh on technologies for the world's energy future
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When it comes to technology and innovation, no one can predict what the future will bring. Martin Haigh's job for Shell is looking to possible alternate futures for global ...
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Jeremy Bentham on scenario planning for crucial choices in uncertain times
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Corporations and the public and private sectors use scenario planning to help inform decision-making. It's a way of looking at alternate possible futures.
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